Cheryl Smith WINS Sign Show Awards 2008

[Neil Davey]

Well done Cheryl……….Go Girl 😀

Neil

[Nicola McIntosh]

well done cheryl….im on the phone right now with lynn, and im getting updated as we speak 😀

nik

[Jill Marie Welsh]

Yeehaw!
Sign Chix Rock.
Love….Jill

[David Rowland]

excellent!!! 😛

[John Childs]

Well done Cheryl.

How’d the other two do?

[Lynn Normington]

don’t know yet John waiting to hear let you know soon as

Lynn

[John Childs]

Thanks Lynn.

[Karl Williams]

Nice one Cheryl! :appl: :appl: :appl: :appl: :appl: :breakdance: :breakdance: :funky:

[Kevin Flowers]

Well done Cheryl :funky:

Kev

[Martin Cole]

:praise1: Well done that girl, that is some achievement :thumbsup:

[Chris Wool]

😀 well done 😀 😀

[Jason Xuereb]

Well done that was a great job.

[Harry Cleary]

Excellente Excellente Excellente!!!!!!!!!! Well done that girl!! 😀 😀 (hot) (hot) (hot) (hot) (hot)

[Peter Mindham]

Well done I bet that was one heck of a celebration!!

Peter

[Phill Fenton]

Well done Cheryl 😀 :appl:

[Hugh Potter]

superb result Cheryl, very well deserved! Go Girl!

[Glenn Sharp]

well done Cheryl…….great news :dance1: :pink: :thumbup2: :2thumbs:

[George Elsmore]

:appl: :appl: :praise1: :praise1:

well done Cheryl

[Warren Beard]

great stuff Cheryl (:) :appl:

[John Thomson]

Congratulations Cheryl………great achievement 😀

john

[Jason Davies]

Outstanding, Well Done.

Jason

[Marcella Ross]

Well done Cheryl – Go Girl!!!!!!!! 😉 😀

[Lorraine Clinch]

Wow! Well done Cheryl! Bet your head hurts today though!!! :lol1:

[Gavin MacMillan]

Congratulations – a well deserved win!

[Craig Brown]

Well done Cheryl – great job, just think you should have give John Sargeant a bit of a hard time for his jibe about getting his wife to clean cars as well as you did…a good night had by all and one you should be very proud of.

[Cheryl Smith]

OMG! THANK YOU SOO MUCH…for all the lovely comments….I was blown away!! The amount of people who wanted to wish me congrats on the night and the good wishes…signwriters are such a lovely bunch of people.. Thanks to Ian I would not have known about this award at all…and Id encourage everyone to enter next year…think about it!
Attached write up I was really flattered by!
As someone who is not a hardened drinker…the Champagne was flowing and I am really fluffy today!!
thanks again, and now the job of putting this award on my van, website, etc etc etc!!
Blimy!
Cheryl

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[Steve Morgan]

Congratulations Cheryl. I like the idea of a single person beating companies with several staff – you have to do everything. Real David and Goliath stuff.
When you have a few minutes, can you tell us the story of how it all happened?

Steve

[Jamie Wood]

Well done from me too…

[Duncan Wilkie]

Well done Cheryl!!!!

[David Rowland]

you be signing autographs next my dear x

[Neil Speirs]

"Firstly, I would like to thank God, my parents & especially all at the uksignboards forum without whom this would never have been possible!" 😉 😀

Well done Cheryl & well deserved :thumbsup:

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[Ian Pople]

well done

[Derek Heron]

:clap2:
just wanted to add my congratulations to Cheryl for the win
and also to the other board members in the running for prizes
hope you all had a good night
i shall toast you with my usual glass of red CHEERS!

now get back to work

😉

Derek

[Cheryl Smith]

Excellent Crown..im laughin me head off!! OO I have got a real hangover!¬! groan
Cx

[Kimberley Edwards]

Congratulations Cheryl! :appl:
Is the award for a particular job you did? Care to post some pics?

[Mike Grant]

Congratulations and well done.

Am I the only one to notice that Robs work is also in that pic (?)

[Warren Beard]

quote Mike Grant:

Congratulations and well done.

Am I the only one to notice that Robs work is also in that pic (?)

and Ian’s 😉

[Graeme Harrold]

Go Girl :dance2: :dance1: :cheer:

Absolutely fantastic achievement, well done

Can put your prices up a bit now… :lol1:

[Roy Roffey]

well done Cheryl – you make us all proud hun…

and also a well done the the loser’s..lol great achievement by all three of you…surely a inspiration to us smaller sign makers…

xx roffs

( the kisses are for Cheryl – NOT Rob !! )

[David Rowland]

yeah… i am currently in a hotel in hammersmith and yeah i been drinking.. awful habbit…

anyway, i really happy Cheryl has done very well out of the awards, she someone who came on here and was very excitable and in real life she is a fab girl… i know a lot of uksb like our cheryl and we are very happy for you.

sorry.. i must get sleep. if you think i didn’t do the later awards i do have reasons which i gladly say but i am sorry i didn’t come, but i will be there for signuk, regardless of where we endup eek

dave x

[graffica]

Many congrats., Cheryl! Fantastic!
Great that you´ve put the big boys in their place.
Want a job in sunny Spain?

Chris

[Neill Hague]

Well done Cheryl!!

[Adrian Yeo]

Missed this! Must scroll down more often!

Huge congrats on your achievement :dance2: :dance2:

[Cheryl Smith]

quote graffica:

Many congrats., Cheryl! Fantastic!
Great that you´ve put the big boys in their place.
Want a job in sunny Spain?

Chris

Thank you very much…I am very tempted…especially in this orrible weather we are having…I dont know spanish either…but the thought is really nice x

O and thankyou for all the congrats….I am really flattered x

[Richard Urquhart]

A very well done Chery

Rich 😀

[John Wilson]

Well done Cheryl 😀 😀 😀

I’ve even more gutted that my babysitter let me down now or I would have been there 🙁 oh well there is always next year 😎

Once again congrats 😀 😀 😀

[Cheryl Smith]

some pics!

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[Cheryl Smith]

ill put them up one or two at a time, cos Im having trouble loading them

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[Cheryl Smith]

Party People

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[Cheryl Smith]

annuva party people!

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[Cheryl Smith]

Mr Mr

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[Cheryl Smith]

Champagne Champagne!!

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[Lynn Normington]

nice pic’s Cheryl thanks, you looked lovely, what is the guy called on your right in the pic I think I’ve seen him on tv stuff (?)

Lynn

[Harry Cleary]

whose your tailor Peter??? 😀

[Cheryl Smith]

yeh he was that political correspondent for the BBC…forgotten his name…will have to go look…oh yeh John Sergent…he was funny.

[Cheryl Smith]

lol, he told me it was Marks and Spencer, Peter, I think you looked really smart.

[John Macdonald]

Well done Cheryl. And thanks for the coke. Im so gutted I never went to the show now. Must change my attitude toward dress sense. Will be buying a suit soon.

Well done again.

[Shane Drew]

Well done Cheryl.

Well done to all 3 actually 🙂

Looks like a great night was had by all.

Cheers
Shane

[Martin Pearson]

Congratulations Cheryl

[Dave Parkin]

Fantastic achievement m8……..god how famous are you 😉

[Jeremy Howes]

Very well done Cheryl, a tremendous accolade.

Jeremy

[Steve Underhill]

Havent been about much due to problems at home, but well done
excellent job.
🙂

[Cheryl Smith]

This is how the job went

As a one woman enterprise, I was delighted to be approached by a well established Communications company who offered me the opportunity to be involved in a high profile job; the job was related to the launch of the British Motor Show 2008.

Since the approach was very much ‘last minute’ the challenge to meet the deadline involved was very much the ethos of my company.

The customer had a quick turnaround need with a crucial deadline, but with a budget which did not really correspond to the visuals provided me. Due to this low budget, I realized that I would not be able to employ anyone to assist me with the fitting.

The artwork required reworking by myself so as not to lose impact, but at the same time remain within the time and budget constraints. Every small change would have to be approved by all parties involved; this meant liaising with the creative agency, my customer and their customer.

I had only five days from receipt of artwork to the commencement of fitting; this was to carried out in Sunderland which is a six and half hour drive from my premises.

When the printing was complete, I discovered a major unforeseen problem – the numerous bubbles in the design of the decals had to be cut by hand; since I had no budget for an assistant, this meant working through the night in order to maintain my schedule.

I drove overnight to Nissan’s factory in Sunderland, where I was provided with workshop space for 3 cars; there were no staff available to help as they were busy with other aspects of the Micra launch. Since the cars were parked away from the site, I had to go and change them and clean them alone; with wet weather for some of the time, this operation was quite time consuming in itself.

My fitting performance started at 2.30 hours per car [including cleaning etc] and ended up at 1.15 hours.

My approach to this job was to consider each small step needed to meet the deadline, as opposed to looking at it in its daunting totality; as a result I was able to overcome each problem as it arose. Everything worked out great and, not only do I now have a very happy customer, I have a fantastic job to add to my portfolio of work.

This project has given me a great sense of achievement.

[Cheryl Smith]

This is what my customer said:

GoGirl Signs and a fleet of 25 Nissan Micras!

****** Communications was presented with the massive task of quickly
theming a fleet of 25 Nissan Micras for a special celebration procession
which was to drive from Nissan’s UK production facility in Sunderland
to the ExCeL exhibition centre in London.

The procession was to celebrate 25 years of the Nissan Micra and also
to mark the Nissan Micra 25 Special Edition’s launch at the British
International Motor Show.

Cheryl, of GoGirl Signs, had previously worked with us on similar
promotional events and we needed to call on her to provide a quick
solution…but one which didn’t compromise on quality of materials or
fitment.

Cheryl responded to the challenge with fantastic enthusiasm, energy and
team spirit. A complex ‘on paper’ design from our creative agency
had to be modified by Cheryl at the last minute to fit the cars – and
also to meet a late reduction in budget – and Cheryl’s input was
invaluable in this area.

She quickly helped to redesign the decals without affecting the overall
theme and impact, and she then produced all of the decals to the
excellent quality levels that we have come to expect from her company.

Single-handedly – due to budget restrictions – she fitted all of
the decals herself on site at the factory in Sunderland and throughout
the process, she continually kept us up-to-date with the fitment…even
supplying digital photographs of the fitting as it progressed.

Cheryl worked, as usual, on her own initiative throughout this project.
She understood the brief from the word ‘go’ and she quickly provided
solutions to the changing requirements. This was crucial for us at the
time of the Motor Show because our agency staff were fully occupied on
other tasks at the show.

Regional TV, newspapers and national publications all featured the
vehicles in their press reports on the procession as it travelled to the
British Motor Show and the convoy of vehicles made a huge visual impact
from start to finish….helped in a big way by the quality, clarity and
impact of the decals fitted to our vehicles by GoGirl Signs.

:blush: :blush: :blush:

and this is the thread to the pics
https://www.uksignboards.com/viewtopic.p … highlight=

I think thats all…
back to business as usual..

[Gareth.Lewis]

Cheryl,

The whole procedure from soup to nuts sounded just remarkable.

The only words I can think of are… astonishing, astounding, fantastic, incredible, marvelous, miraculous, phenomenal, stupendous, unbelievable and wonderful….

… also not bad, not bad at all!

Gareth

[Cheryl Smith]

blimy!! thanks a million. 😀

[Gareth.Lewis]

No, really, being able to know the story behind the finished result has brought a different light to the whole proceedings.

I imagined (wrongly) that you might have sat in your director’s chair while a team of hired minions went to fit the job, and it was done and dusted in a day. But the ‘through the night’ drive to Sunderland, the hours on the job, the logistics of sorting the vehicles, the to-ing and fro-ing with the customer – almost sounds like a good basis for a book.

I’ll remember the story (and slap my own wrist) when I look to the heavens the next time I am asked to drive to the other side of Cardiff at 4.55pm on a rainy Wednesday afternoon.

[Simon Polakof]

Congrats Cheryl!

[Kimberley Edwards]

Cheryl, thanks for linking back to the picture as I missed it the first time around. You are speaking to the group who is able to comprehend what went into this. This is a very impressive accomplishment, and you should be very proud. Jobs like this come along and let you prove to yourself what you can do. I’m sure much more will follow on this job’s coat tails. 😀

[Cheryl Smith]

quote Kimberley Edwards:

I’m sure much more will follow on this job’s coat tails. 😀

I hope so! Good to have this as a backup in my sales patter!! 🙂

[Stepen Wood]

Wow, well done

I seen these driving into Excel for the Motorshow build up final day and immediately thought a big sign company had done them.

While on a break I had a closer look. They were superb, an excellent job that I believe can only be produced by caring signmaker.

Reading this thread, I cannot believe such a good job could be produced in that timescale by one person. A very well deserved award

Cheers Stephen

[Cheryl Smith]

fanx 🙂

[Ian Johnston]

Again well done Cheryl., From the first day i saw you pictures of the car and told you to enter i knew you could win. again very well done.
ps meant to post this earlier but have been up to my eyes in it since we come back.

Ian

[Robert Lambie]

And again from me too, a big well done from me too Cheryl… good on you! 😉

some pictures taken at the awards…

This picture shows some of us on our way upto the awards after the champaign reception:
left to right: Chris Dowd, Peter Normington, Cheryl Smith, Kate Pollard and Joe McNamara.

And The Breast Sign Maker of the Year 2008 Award goes too: Cheryl Smith of Go-girl Signs.

ahem…. I’ll try again…. 😳

and The Best Small Sign Maker of the Year 2008 Award Goes to: Cheryl Smith of Go-Girl Signs

The following pictures show Cheryl receiving meeting John Sergeant of the BBC whilst up to collect her award.

sorry i didnt get much more pictures after this, but after i crashed and burned in my own catagory, i went and got wasted!
😳 :lol1:

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[Phill Fenton]

I have to say – I think Peter deserves a special award for managing to avert his eyes 😳

[Cheryl Smith]

thanks Rob for the piccies, it was nice to get dressed up and feel glam. shame noone can see my shoes !! they are awesome 😀

[Martin Cole]

quote Phill:

I have to say – I think Peter deserves a special award for managing to avert his eyes

:lol1: :lol1: :lol1:

[Cheryl Smith]

getting even more mileage out of publicity for awards!! got to be my 15 mins of fame used up!!
😀

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[Andrew Boyle]

Well done Cheryl 😀 Some achievement 😀 and Peter looks very dapper 😀

[Peter Normington]

Just found this on my phone, The Award!

Peter

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[John Singh]

Well done Cheryl
We’re all proud of ya!

[Cheryl Smith]

aw nice one peter!!

[James Deacon]

Well done Cheryl !!!!!!!!!!! Go girl

sorry for delay in congratulations on award. Cars look great maybe I should get a few tips from you!

[Kenny Ramsey]

Only seeing this today after a long absence from here. Well done Cheryl. Was very impressed with the job when I first seen it and even more so since I’ve read what all was involved.

Very inspiring for someone in a similar position :appl:

[Cheryl Smith]

just got the presentation pic…

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[Dave Bruce]

Well done Cheryl, excellent achievement and well deserved too.

Sorry its so late I was in sunny Spain when you won, just catching up with things now.

Congrats :appl:

Cheers

Dave